He has produced what is believed to be New Zealand's widest photograph - an 8m wide, 47cm deep, 180deg view of the Quailburn area, near Omarama.
He is offering the photograph for sale on an online auction site. Yesterday it had reached $12. The auction finishes on November 12, and is to raise money for Youthline, the youth suicide prevention telephone service.
Mr Golding calculated that to buy the image from a photographic shop would cost about $1000.
Mr Golding will produce two of the spectacular photographs, keeping one for himself and selling the other.
He also plans even wider photographs. With the right printer, he calculates he could get them up to 14m wide.
The Omarama scene is the widest photograph he has produced. His previous widest was a 6m view over the Kakanui Mountains.
His interest in wide photographs started about a year ago, and some he has already produced, including the Omarama scene, are on his website, www.goldingarts.co.nz.
"Melding two passions together" is how he described the photographs and supporting Youthline.
Mr Golding was a psychiatric nurse, specialising in psychiatry for children and adolescents, before becoming a professional photographer.
That was why he chose Youthline as the charity, and he hopes it will benefit "with a good few hundreds of dollars" from the auction.
He also has an exhibition in the Oamaru shop Omru Blue, which he plans to expand later this year.
To capture the Omarama scene, he used a 300mm lens with a 1.4 converter, manually taking images through the 180deg. It took about two days to load them into a computer and then balance the images. The images were then fed into a program produced by a French company.
The program matched prominent features and then melded the images into one complete image.
